SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Prototype RODS System
- Notice Date
- 11/29/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Contracts Management Division 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45268
- ZIP Code
- 45268
- Solicitation Number
- PR-CI-06-10142
- Response Due
- 12/14/2005
- Archive Date
- 1/13/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with the University of Pittsburgh?s Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory to build a prototype RODS system that incorporates and analyzes water quality data and clinical data. On January 30, 2004, the President of the United States issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9 (HSPD-9), which directed EPA to develop robust, comprehensive, and fully coordinated monitoring and surveillance systems for drinking water. To address these responsibilities, EPA is developing an early warning system, known as WaterSentinel, which includes integration of water quality parameters and consumer complaints into existing public health syndromic surveillance systems as a key component. Currently, there are two nationally available syndromic surveillance systems in use by local and state health departments across the country: RODS and ESSENCE. Since WaterSentinel may be deployed in cities using RODS, EPA is requesting that the University of Pittsburgh modify the RODS program language and analytical algorithms to integrate water quality parameters and consumer complaints collected by the water utility. Once this project is completed, any city desiring to utilize the water-based program enhancements will be able to do so. While some aspects of the RODS program code are open-source, core components are proprietary to the University of Pittsburgh. Consequently, demonstrating the ability to incorporate water utility data into RODS (the public health syndromic surveillance system already in place in proposed WS cities) can only be performed by the RODS Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. This project will task the University of Pittsburgh, to modify the non-open source program code necessary to support the nationwide deployment of real-time water quality data into cities? existing public health syndromic surveillance systems. The concept described herein will be demonstrated in two cities that currently utilize RODS as their public health syndromic surveillance system, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. A complementary study is also being pursued with ESSENCE via a sole source contract with Johns Hopkins University, the controller of the program code for ESSENCE. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. This procurement will be accomplished under FAR Part 12, Commercial Acquisition Procedures. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability and respond. Documentation must be received by December 14, 2005 in order to be considered by the EPA. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon assessment of responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested parties should submit a written response to Matthew J. Growney by fax (513) 487-2107 or by e-mail growney.matthew@epa.gov to receive consideration for this contract. Telephone responses will not be honored.
- Web Link
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The Environmental Protection Agency
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- Record
- SN00941585-W 20051201/051130090639 (fbodaily.com)
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